“Every opportunity to pick up a camera is an opportunity to practice and learn as well—the learning never stops with this craft.”— Rob Woodcox, thisiscolossal.com
“When photographs of traditional tā moko were captured back in the 1800s, the tattoos themselves barely showed up at all and where therefore lost to history.”— Michael Zhang, petapixel.com
“As a Nikon photographer, there is a large selection of lenses you can use for your creative images. If you’re a portrait photographer, Nikon has a marketplace of high quality gear for each price point.”— The H Hub, H Collective, thehhub.com
“Andy [Warhol] was always like, ‘Do whatever you want, just make everyone look good.’”— David LaChapelle, interviewmagazine.com
“I never tried to be profane and I never tried purposely to shock people—I never found nudity shocking and we always had fun with it.”— David LaChapelle, interviewmagazine.com
“I had a loud mouth; it was like a circus always, so the more I screamed and acted crazy the more relaxed and disarmed people were in front of the camera.”— David LaChapelle, interviewmagazine.com
“People who use digital are not photographers—they’re more art directors...They decide after a shoot what’s good, where I have to decide what’s good before I do it. Digital photographers take thousands of pictures, and then edit. Give a camera to a chimp and he could take digital pictures.”— David Bailey, vogue.com
“It’s amazing for those moments where you see the perfect shot but don’t have your big camera with you.”— Daria Shevtsova, medium.com
“Rather than trying to make some sort of epic narrative about America, I wanted to simply spend time looking at other people and, hopefully, briefly glimpse their interior life...Whether a picture is made in Odessa or Minneapolis, my goal was the same: to simply spend time in the presence of another…”— Alec Soth, Kenneth Dickerman, washingtonpost.com
“The key elements of this ubiquitous photography style are a direct flash, high color saturation, and a blunt-force sense of hyperreality. It’s used by both consumer brands and journalistic institutions, from Bon Appétit to the New York Times.”— Eliza Brooke, www-racked-com.cdn.ampproject.org
“I had no idea how I was going to become a photographer. But I was just taking pictures and being very passionate about photography.”— Mario Sorrenti, garage.vice.com
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”— Dorothea Lange, pbs.org
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”— Karl Lagerfeld, thehhub.com
“I’m always inspired by unique styles. For so long I kind of got into my own niche of editing and I guess that kept evolving into something that it is right now. It’s always going to keep evolving and changing so it’s definitely a lot of fun.”— Brandon Woelfel, thehhub.com
“Debbie: They still get married in L.A., right? Plenty of weddings for me to shoot. Harry: Maybe you can shoot mine when I get my trophy wife. Debbie: Dude, I am your trophy wife.”— Rob Thomas, Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah, Debbie Wilson, Lori Loughlin, imdb.com
“If you’re gonna judge someone’s gear before you even see their photos, the door is right here.”— Brandon Woelfel, twitter.com